Pre-show Talk: Ramsey Campbell & Jeremy Dyson

Liverpool horror writer Ramsey Campbell will be joined by Jeremy Dyson for a pre-show talk about The Haunting of Hill House at the Playhouse Studio.

They will be talking about horror writing, with a particular emphasis on ‘the power of the unseen’; Shirley Jackson, her influence and the power of suggestive terror.

Ramsey Campbell said:

“Shirley Jackson's brand of quiet insidious terror is unique and inimitable, and The Haunting of Hill House is her ghostly masterpiece, which unites the uncanny and the psychological in a highly personal tale.”

As well as writing The League of Gentleman Jeremy Dyson co-created the BAFTA nominated television series Funland. Jeremy has written several books including Bright Darkness: Lost Art of the Supernatural Horror Film and The Haunted Book which chronicles true life ghost stories from around the UK. He has also written two collections of short stories entitled Never Trust a Rabbit and The Cranes That Build The Cranes. In 2010 Dyson co-created Ghost Stories at the Playhouse which went on to West End success and returned in 2011 with Twisted Tales.

Widely regarded as one of the greatest living horror writers, Ramsey Campbell has won multiple British Fantasy and World Fantasy Awards and several Bram Stokers and International Horror Guild Awards. He is the author of such classic works of horror and dark fantasy as Obsession, The Face Must Die, The Nameless, Incarnate and The Influence, and more recently The Darkest Part of the Woods, The Overnight and The Grin of the Dark.